Projects: Physics

ALCF projects cover many scientific disciplines, ranging from biology and physics to materials science and energy technologies. Filter ongoing and past projects by allocation program, scientific domain, and year.

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Domain Physics
Hours 40 Million Core-Hours

Petascale Simulation of Laser Plasma Interactions Relevant to Inertial Fusion Energy

PI F.S Tsung, University of California, Los Angeles

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Domain Physics
Hours 47 Million Core-Hours

MockBOSS: Calibrating Boss Dark Energy Science with HACC

PI Katrin Heitmann, Argonne National Laboratory

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Domain Physics
Hours 19.5 Million Core-Hours

Predictive Full-Scale Simulations of Fast Ignition of Fusion Targets

PI Frederico Fiuza, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Interaction of a fast-ignition-scale laser with a dense DT plasma.

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Domain Physics
Hours 250 Million Core-Hours

Ab Initio Quantum Liquid Water and Aqueous Ionic Solutions

PI Robert A. DiStasio Jr. , Princeton University
A systematization of a lithium atom (yellow) immersed into an aqueous environment.

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Domain Physics
Hours 155 Million Core-Hours

Nuclear Structure and Nuclear Reactions

PI James Vary, Iowa State University
ADLB (Asynchronous Dynamic Load-Balancing) version of GFMC

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Domain Physics
Hours 40 Million Core-Hours

Kinetic Simulations of Fusion Energy Dynamics at the Extreme Scale

PI William Tang, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

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Domain Physics
Hours 53 Million Core-Hours

Petascale Simulations of Inhomogeneous Alfven Turbulence in the Solar Wind

PI Jean C. Perez, University of New Hampshire
A snapshot of turbulent magnetic field lines (red) inside a coronal hole that expands from a small patch on the solar surface to 5 solar radii

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Domain Physics
Hours 65 Million Core-Hours

Three Dimensional Simulations for Core Collapse Supernovae

PI Anthony Mezzacappa, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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Domain Physics
Hours 430 Million Core-Hours

Lattice QCD

PI Paul Mackenzie, Fermilab
calculations of the decay of a kaon into two pions

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Domain Physics
Hours 200 Million Core-Hours

Simulation of Laser-plasma Interaction in National Ignition Facility Experiments

PI Steven Langer, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

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Domain Physics
Hours 105 Million Core-Hours

Next-Generation Petascale Simulations of Type Ia Supernovae

PI Don Lamb, The University of Chicago
deflagration to detonation transition model

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Domain Physics
Hours 40 Million Core-Hours

Computing the Dark Universe

PI Salman Habib, Argonne National Laboratory
outer rim simulation

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Domain Physics
Hours 40 Million Core-Hours

Transformative Simulation of Shock-Generated Magnetic Fields

PI Milad Fatenejad, University of Chicago

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Domain Physics
Hours 35 Million Core-Hours

Spectral Slope of MHD Turbulence

PI Andrey Beresnyak, Los Alamos National Laboratory

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Domain Physics
Hours 80 Million Core-Hours

Accelerator Simulations for the Intensity Frontier of Particle Physics

PI James Amundson, Fermilab
Multiple-bunch simulation of the Fermilab Booster particle accelerator

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Domain Physics
Hours 4 Million Core-Hours

Exploring the Nature of the Lightest Massive Particles in the Universe

PI Katrin Heitmann, Argonne National Laboratory, High Energy Physics and Mathematics and Computer Science Divisions
Simulated dark matter distribution for different cosmological models (colors: velocities) demonstrating the power of large-scale structure measurements to probe new physics.

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Domain Physics
Hours 70 Million Core-Hours

How Do Standard Candles Illuminate Knowledge of the Universe?

PI Don Lamb, The University of Chicago
Four snapshots during a simulation of the explosion phase of the deflagration-to-detonation (DDT) model of nuclear-powered (Type Ia) supernovae.

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Domain Physics
Hours 21 Million Core-Hours

Illuminating Scientists' Knowledge of the Universe with "Standard Candles"

PI Donald Lamb , The University of Chicago
Three visualizations of nuclear combustion in a supernovae.

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Domain Physics
Hours 19.6 Million Core-Hours

Deepening the Understanding of Interactions between Quarks and Gluons

PI Bob Sugar, University of California, Santa Barbara
A frame from an animation illustrating the typical four-dimensional structure of gluon-field configurations used in describing the vacuum properties of QCD.

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Domain Physics
Hours 8 Million Core-Hours

Advanced Simulations of Plasma Microturbulence at the Petascale and Beyond

PI William Tang, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory